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Kara Cervantes

4 May, 01:38

Read the quotation below.

I am not a labor leader. I don't want

you to follow me or anyone else. If

you are looking for a Moses to lead

you out of the capitalist wilderness

you will stay right where you are. I

would not lead you into this promised

land if I could, because if I could lead

you in, someone else could lead you

out.

-Eugene Debs

Using the text from the reading, why do you think Debs does not consider himself to be a "labor leader"?

Debs worked for other causes besides labor.

Debs wanted to be considered a savior for laborers instead.

Debs would like to lead people into the "promised land": socialism.